In essence, when you purchase a copy of the book, it has the full and complete book. When you share the book with anyone else, the encryption will randomly change the text in a book. It will do this every time a new copy of the book is distributed. This will result in thousands of different versions of the book, with text being augmented on a wide scale. Publishers have tools that allow them to grab the pirated copy and trace it back to the original purchaser. This is designed to stop piracy and make people accountable and ditching without the bulky aspect of 95% of today’s DRM.
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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In essence, when you purchase a copy of the book, it has the full and complete book. When you share the book with anyone else, the encryption will randomly change the text in a book. It will do this every time a new copy of the book is distributed. This will result in thousands of different versions of the book, with text being augmented on a wide scale. Publishers have tools that allow them to grab the pirated copy and trace it back to the original purchaser. This is designed to stop piracy and make people accountable and ditching without the bulky aspect of 95% of today’s DRM.
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